$30

Hourly Consulting Rate

Jeffrey Garay

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Accounting

Apparel/Fashion

Information Technology/IT

Railroad Manufacture

Telecommunications

Textiles

+ 2 More

Location Supported

Australia

Philippines

Languages Supported

English

Tagalog

Skills

  • Functional consultant
  • ERP
  • Accounting software
  • Robotic process automation

Product Specialization

  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP ECC

About

I am a BSc. educated SAP FICO Consultant with a demonstrated history of delivering large, complex projects. I have a passion for technology and the positive impact it creates in business transformation and process improvement.

Highly skilled in strategic product development and in leading high performing, multinational teams, I focus on the ideation, development, and execution of human-centric portfolios.

Key Competencies:
-Program Management
-Strategic Operations
-Business Development
-Communication and Negotiation
-Creativity and Innovation

Key Technologies and Methodologies:
-SAP FICO ECC and S/4 HANA
-Readsoft
-Agile
-Waterfall
-Microsoft Visio
-Microsoft OS

Top Project Highlights

SAP S/4 HANA Implementation - Philippines

Indonesian based company

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation - LATAM

SAP RE/FX Implementation - Australia

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation - Malaysia

SAP ERP Implementation - Indonesia

Employment

IT Specialist (SAP FI/CO)

2007 - 2009
  • • Lead consultant for SAP implementation in the area of Finance and Controlling
    • Gathered and analysed 100% of business requirements to design and develop solutions that will generate savings, increase efficiency and reduced manual tasks
    • Regularly communicate with the stakeholders, and other team members to ensure 100% compliance with the template

Business Systems Analyst

2009 - 2011
  • • Studied incidents from 100+ monthly active users and used gained expertise to guide IT BAU support strategies; increased resolution of incidents within agreed SLA by 90%, 100% completion of change requests, and 100% closure of identified problems.
    • Directed the implementation of SAP FI/CO in Malaysia that will target to automate and simplify processes based on the agreed template. The project went live successfully with 0 major issue and 100% according to time schedule.

Advisory IT Specialist

2011 - 2012
  • • Scrutinised incidents from 100+ monthly active users and used gained expertise to guide IT BAU support strategies; increased resolution of incidents within agreed SLA by 100%, 100% completion of change requests, and 100% closure of identified problems. This is for a shipping and logistics company in Singapore (APL)
    • Preceded the Procure-to-Pay process stream of the support business model which aims to target 100% on-time of vendors payment, and 80% utilization of prompt-payment discount depending on the cash position approved by the business

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

2012 - 2014
  • • Examined incidents from 50 monthly active users and used gained expertise to guide IT BAU support strategies; increased resolution of incidents within agreed SLA by 95%, 100% completion of change requests, and 100% closure of identified problems. This is for a transport company in Australia AURIZON
    • Led the testing of SAP Real Estate system which will automate real estate related process from master data, offering, and billing expected to reduced manual tasks by 80% (AURIZON)

Finance Systems Analyst

2014 - Present
  • • Managed the power-users community of 200+ in 4 geographical areas (Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and Americas), ranging from entry-level analysts to Controllers, and collaborated with stakeholders, developers, and operations
    • Launched invoice auto-posting facility in procure-to-pay process which automate 100% of vendor invoices postings which led to increase of users efficiency by 90%
    • Proposed training and peer-mentoring programs for the incoming finance transformation program to reduced systems incidents by almost 50%
    • Organized and arranged quarterly training sessions to the power-user community based on Top 10 issues collected on the previous quarter
    • Overhauled the obsolete legacy design of Readsoft applications, resulting in increased usability and reduced run time performance by 70%
    • Designed, configured, and test other finance systems (SAP, Readsoft, and Blackline) in accordance with strict standards and documentation requirements for 100% compliance
    • Provide up-to-date expert advice and support in the completion of Treasury Management Systems project resulting from simplification of intercompany process, this action results in increase efficiency and save month-end closing time by 87%
    • Worked collaboratively with other teams to ensure each finance systems is 100% compliant
    • Retained by the Management during the IT Transformation Project (Reorganization Project to reduce IT employees by 75%) due to strong performance and organizational impact

Education

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
2001-2005

Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Management Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 1809)
2020-Present
Certified Public Accountant
2006-Present

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